Quotes About Depth

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

We write from the marrow of our bones.

I ache, brilliantly.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?